Estimating animal densities and home range in regions with irregular boundaries and holes: A lattice-based alternative to the kernel density estimator

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 222, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1666-1672

  Barry, Ronald P ^a   McIntyre, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Home range; Intensity functions; Kernel density estimation; Point process; Utilization distribution

Indexed keywords

HOME RANGE; INTENSITY FUNCTIONS; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION; POINT PROCESS; UTILIZATION DISTRIBUTION;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ESTIMATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; HOME RANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERCIFORM; POPULATION DENSITY; RADIOTELEMETRY;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; LAKE MONROE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; SANDER VITREUS; STIZOSTEDION VITREUM;

EID: 79954616101     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.02.016     Document Type: Article

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